The fight, loot, sell, repeat cycle of Diablo III has so far been limited to PCs, but according to Blizzard, the dungeon crawler may be coming to consoles… to the point where they have the game up and running.

While speaking with Polygon, chief creative officer Rob Pardo had this to say:

"We're still kind of exploring it. We've got builds up and running on it. We're hoping to get it far enough along where we can make it an official project, but we're not quite ready to release stuff about it, but it's looking pretty cool."

Blizzard hasn't really been in the console business since the 16-bit days, having focused on PCs. While rumors have been percolating for years that Blizzard might come back to consoles, this is really the closest they've (officially) come in a while.

Our Take: As fun as Diablo III on consoles could be, we can see why Blizzard is shy about making it official. It's difficult to see certain aspects of the auction house being allowed on console networks. There's also the question of cross-platform play, which is a sticky one.

But we hope this becomes official, if for no other reason than we could use another dungeon crawler.